Gas-producer.



G. J. HAGANy GAS PRODUCER. APPLIOATIQN FILED APR. 5, 1909.

9,233 Patented Sept. 6, 1910.

UNITED STATES PATENT orrion.

' GEORGE J. HAGAN, or PITTSBURG, rENusYLvANIA.

GAS-PRODUCER.

Speciflcation of Letters Patent.

"Patented Sept. 6, 1910.

Application filedApril 5, 19o9.- Serial No. 487,965.

' tom of the water trough, as shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan section Fig. 2 a vertical elevation of the producer.

The producer is of usual construction,

- consisting of a brickwork shell a, a water trough b, a hopper 0, and poke holes (1 pro-v vided in the cover, and a gas flue e near the top of the producer. The grate j forms a ridge transverse to the water trough and eX- tends on both sides of'the ridge down to the bottom of the water trough.

It is obvious that the ashes by, gravity slide downward on the grate, and are shed sidewise clear to the cleaning holes of the producer. But the main feature is that the pokers g which are introduced through the holes (1 to stir the coals and break the clinkers, by gravity slide along the grate, performing the task more perfectly and at the same time shoveling the ashes from the grate down to the cleaning holes of the producer, and all this with comparatively small offort of the operators. This construction also shortens the time-required for removing the ashes, which means another improvement, since duringthe cleaning of the producer, a lower grade gas is produced.

What Iclaim as my invention is v 1. In a gas producer having a water trough, a ridged grate transverse thereto and egrtending from wall to wall of the gas producer shell and both Ways down to the bottom of said jtroughy, and substantially filling the inside planv profile of said producer, for the purpose setforth.

2. In a gas roducer having a, water trough, a ridge; grate transverse thereto and extending from wall to wallof the as producer shellta-nd both ways down to the bottom of saidtrough, and substantially filling the inside plan profile of said producer, and passages for the air from blower in the upper portion of said grate, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEO. J. HAGAN.

Witnesses: I

E. J. HORACEK, HOWARD G. HAMMER. 

